Magic Kingdom Crowd Levels

Find out how long you'll wait for each Magic Kingdom Crowd Level on the Crowd Calendar. These numbers represent the average peak wait times for each attraction -- in other words, the highest waits expected for Magic Kingdom by crowd level. The numbers are the range you'll typically expect as a peak wait time.

Some Magic Kingdom attractions are better indicators of crowds than others. Rides like the Pirates of the Caribbean and Space Mountain are
well-known, elaborate, handle 1,000+ riders per hour, and are popular with most guests. The attractions in this chart meet all of these criteria, and are the basis for
the 1-to-10 Magic Kingdom Crowd Calendar forecasts we make:

Other Magic Kingdom attractions are frequently not very good indicators of crowds, and are not part of our Magic Kingdom Crowd Calendar forecast. An attraction
that is relatively unpopular, is relatively new, cannot handle a large number of guests per hour, or whose posted wait times don't change much regardless of crowds, isn't helpful when determining
how crowded the park is.

For example, it's common to see a 30-minute wait posted at Astro Orbiter most days. Why?
Because Astro Orbiter is a relatively simple, not very popular, slow-loading, low capacity ride, and 30 minutes is around the most time most people are willing to wait for it,
most days of the year. So Astro Orbiter isn't a good indicator of crowds, and isn't part of our 1-to-10 Magic Kingdom Crowd Calendar predictions. We show estimated
wait times below for it and other rides, to give you an idea of the wait times you can expect to see at various crowd levels.

These numbers represent minutes. We've taken the highest wait times for each day we have data, split them up by the Magic Kingdom crowd level estimate we have for those days, then calculated the average range by level.

If you're going on a day where Magic Kingdom is estimated as a '3' crowd level, the times under the '3' column will be a good estimate of the longest wait you'll see for each attraction. As you can see, some attractions vary a lot more than others.

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